Supporting-bracket for lamps or lanterns



J. W. KNOBLOCK. SUPPORTING BRACKET FOR LAMPS OR LANTERNS. APPLICATION FILED APR-18,1918. RENEWED OCT. 29. 1920.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE,

JAMES w. KNOBLOCK, or new YORK, N. Y., ssIG1\ToR T0 AMERIcAN LA FRANoE FIRE ENGINE 00. Inc, or ELMIRA, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION on NEW YORK.

menses.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. '7, 1920.

Application filed. April 18, 1918, Serial No. 229,303. Renewed. October 29, 1920. Serial No. 420,578.

To all whom it may concemt:

Be it known that I, JAMEs W. a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements'in Supporting-Brackets for Lamps or Lanterns, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and effective supporting bracket for lamps. or lanterns, which will securely support the lamp in the desired position and will avoid the necessity of heavy and cumbersome attachments to the lamp.

To this end the invention comprises an approximately L-shaped bracket adapted to be mounted in the desired position upon a car or a stationary object, the horizontal arm of the bracket being designed to engage the bottom of the lamp or lantern and having means for preventing lateral displacement thereof, while the upright arm is designed to engage a member, preferably in the form of a loop, rojecting from one of the upright sides of the lamp or lantern and having a spring dog or detent which permits the free mounting of the lamp or lantern upon the bracket and prevents the accidental displacement of the same.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a front view of an electric hand lantern supported upon the improved bracket, the lantern being of a particular design for use with the bracket;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the same, a portion of the lantern being broken away at the bottom to show the means of engagement between the bottom wall 0 the lantern and the bracket;

Fig. 3 is a front view of a bracket alone, the lantern having been removed, and Fig. 4C is a detail sectional view.

The improved bracket for supporting a lamp or lantern was designed specially for use in connection with an electric hand lantern used by fire departments and carried upon fire trucks and other apparatus in convenient position for immediate use. In thls connection the design of the lantern called for simplicity and the bracket was necessarily simple and strong and provided with securing means which take the place of such KNoBLooK,

hanging and supporting attachments as are usually mounted upon the lantern proper.

1 is an electric lantern having adjacent to its top rigidly secured side loops 2, 3 with which engage the loops 5 of a strap handle!) in a manner well understood in the art. On the bottom of the lantern 1 is formed a central cylindrical recess or pocket 10 for the purpose presently to be explained.

The improved supporting bracket is ap proximately of L-shape, it having a horizontal bracket arm 15 and an upright bracket arm of several short straight sections connected by slight bends as presently explained.

Rigidly' secured upon the horizontal arm 15 is a cylindrical lug 16 formed with a tapered upper end 17, which lug is designed to accurately lit the recess or pocket 10 in the bottom of the lantern both to support the lantern from beneath and prevent its lanteral displacement from the bracket arm.

The horizontal arm 15 is connected through the angular portion 20, with an upright section 21, which is designed to be secured by means of rivets or other means to a suitable support, such as a convenient frame or brace, which may be part of a motor vehicle. A second upright straight portion 25 of the bracket arm is integrally connected with part 21, through the short bent portion 26, and riveted to the back of the portion 25 at 31 is theleaf spring 30, which extends upwardly therefrom.

The upper end of the bracket arm, indicated at 27, is connected with portion 25 through the short bent portion 28 and in itself constitutes a tongue to engage a loop upon the lamp or lantern, which loop isillustrated in the drawing as one of the handle supporting loops of the lamp, marked 3.

The leaf spring 30 carries a double detent or dog 35, which is riveted to the spring at 36, each dog or detent having a vertically inclined wall 37 and a horizontal locking wall 38, which is normally presented at right angles to the upper tongue portion 27 of the bracket. The dogs 35 are preferably formed of an integral U-shaped piece so that when the lamp as shown in the drawing is mounted on the bracket the rear loop 5 of the strap handle 5 will be straddled by the two dogs 35, which, at the same time, are presented directly above the end portions of and force the lampdown into position, as.

shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing. To remove the lantern the upper end of spring is pressed back by one hand while the lantern is pulled away and moved vertically with the other hand.

It will be observed-that each of the horizontal and vertical supporting portions of the L-shaped bracket are provided with means of engagement with the lantern. The central portion 25. of the upright bracket arm is arranged in a plane, midway between portion 21 and tongue portion 27, for the purpose of affording room between the bracket arm and the object upon which it is mounted, for the rearward deflection of the spring 30 when the lantern is to be removed from the bracket.

I claim.

1. An L-shaped bracket having an upwardly presented lamp-engaging member upon each of its two arms, and a spring-actuated dog carried by one arm in position to engage the lamp in conjunction with the adjacent lamp-engaging member.

bottom wall to receive said lug, and a side wall loop to receive said tongue.

A lamp-supporting bracket having an upwardly presented tongue adapted to engage the lamp; and a leaf-spring secured to the bracket, and carrying a dog presented adjacent to said tongue and adapted to engage the lamp in conjunction with the tongue.

4. A lamp-supporting bracket having an upwardly presented tongue adapted to engage the lamp; and a leai'spring secured to the bracket, and carrying a dog having a tooth presented adjacent to a side edge of said tongue and adapted to engage the lamp in conjunction with the tongue.

5. The combination with a lamp or lantern having suspending loops and a handle attached to said loops, or" a supporting bracket having a loop-engaging tongue and a spring supported double dog or detent arranged to straddle the handle loop and latch with the lamp loop.

' JAMES W. KNOBLOCK. 

